Re: metadata future enhancement

Sounds just like what yum does - it won't download the packages if
you've already got them installed/downloaded.  I think this is more of
an updater/installer feature than a metadata feature, or am I just
reading this wrong?

-Jeff

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 12:19, Toshio wrote:
> Something I think belongs in the metadata level is patch packages.  I'm
> not as big a proponent of patch packages as I was in 1998 when I was
> stuck behind a 28K modem though, so I'm not pushing this as a "I think
> it belongs in metadata now" just that if someone starts hosting patch
> packages it needs to be integrated at the metadata level so my package
> tool can automatically find what patch packages are available from the
> repository metadata, compare them to my cache of local packages, and
> choose to download accordingly.
> 
> I don't know of any distribution except SuSE that has a patch package
> repository yet, though.  So I don't know if this belongs on the radar
> yet or if it's a "think on it and wait until someone needs the it"
> feature.
> 
> -Toshio